[OPEN] Who let the dogs out? Woof.

[taiyoukai]

Characters: Sesshomaru, his bad temper, his worse manners and YOU!
Setting: Room 4-14, Meadow floor and around the Tower.
Format: Action, but I'll match you.
Summary: Having had a few days to adapt - for some values of the word adapt (read: stop feeling homicidal about everything ever), Sesshomaru decides it's time to explore a little and test a few theories.
Warnings: Testy inu daiyoukai with a tendency to melt things that annoy him with his poison claws. Also fluffy, angry dog in the meadow floor.

[Room 4-14]

[He hadn't much noticed the two boxes or the wreath in his trunk, when he first arrived, much more in a hurry to get out of that ridiculous suit - which was thankfully already melted and done for - and to seek out some answers, but today Sesshomaru takes the time to study them, before heading out to inspect the tower more in detail. He'd worked out most of his rage at the monsters in that perpetual night floor, but he hadn't come out with many answers over all.

So now there he is, sitting on his assigned bed - tch - arching an eyebrow at a box of his favorite flavor of pocky and a box, of all things, of dog treats. Sesshomaru did not find the joke very funny at all. It hadn't been funny when Kagome gave him them, and it wasn't funny now.

There's also a dried flower wreath on the bed, but he's not bothering to look or touch or acknowledge it, because something inside hurts a little too much when he tries to think about it.]

[Meadow floor]

[After some cursory exploration of the Tower, he decided this was the best floor on which to attempt this, and thus walked away from the staircase resolutely. A good distance away, he closed his eyes for a moment, before he opened them and began to gather his youki to transform back into his true form.]

[He succeeds, and he certainly doesn't look much like a puppy, but the size alone is infuriating. Barely eight, nine feet at the most, and certainly much smaller than he should be.

How annoying.]

[Anywhere else]

[After he's done with the meadow floor, somewhat disgusted by such a lackluster transformation and deeply infuriated by anyone who'd dare do such a thing to him, Sesshomaru stalks away towards the staircase, intent on exploring the tower more thoroughly this time.]

Comments

[taiyoukai]

[Sesshomaru just looks at her, arching an eyebrow. And then, very slowly, very purposely, he flashed a fang at her.]

[tohko_amano]

[At that, Tohko's hand went to her dagger, but she didn't draw it out just yet. It was best to do it only when Sesshomaru actually started attacking.

..Did the eybrow-arch mean that he was trying to threaten her or just teasing her to get a reaction? She couldn't tell.]

What big teeth you have there, grandma. Hopefully you're not thinking of using them.

[Like he would get that reference.]

[taiyoukai]

And what if I am?

[Haughtily, oh so haughtily.]

[tohko_amano]

Well, then you would have to remember that, in the end, the hunter killed the wolf and rescued both the girl and her grandmother.

[taiyoukai]

...Wolves are inherently inferior creatures.

[Totally not thinking of a certain wolf here, of course not.]

[tohko_amano]

How so? A few in the stories are bad, but they're not all terrible.

[taiyoukai]

They are annoying, loud, obnoxious, self-important creatures.

[And they killed his Rin, which is utterly unacceptable. Utterly unacceptable.]

[tohko_amano]

[Not that Tohko knew this. However, a small bell went off in her head.

Maybe, just maybe..]

..Is it possible that you know a wolf demon who acts like that?

[taiyoukai]

A wolf demon implies these are not universal wolf demon attributes.

[tohko_amano]

Well, I wouldn't think they would be. It's like watching one human who kills people and stating that every member of the human race is a murderer. That would be a lie.

[taiyoukai]

I know enough wolf youkai.

[He knows more than enough wolf youkai, really.]

[tohko_amano]

But you don't know all of them. It's not good to make generalizations about a large group of people.

[taiyoukai]

Your logic is faulty.

[Honestly, everything about you is faulty, Tohko, really.]

[tohko_amano]

How so?

[Tohko operates on a different wavelength from everyone else, for better or worse.]

[taiyoukai]

[It also doesn't help that Sesshomaru is a bitch and everything is faulty if he doesn't agree to it.]

If a trait is shared by the majority of a group it is a generalization for a reason. Those who do not conform to that standard are the exception, not the rule.

[tohko_amano]

[Tohko will do her best to get him to stop thinking like that.

..Whether she'll succeed is a different matter.]

But it's not like you've met every single wolf demon out there. You may have only met a small number of them that were cruel, and if that's so, then you would be the one with the shaky logic.

[taiyoukai]

And you may have no idea what you are talking about.

[tohko_amano]

Why do you think that?

[taiyoukai]

You think in human terms.

[Which are so inferior to daiyoukai terms, not to mention Sesshomaru terms.]

[tohko_amano]

And what's so different about demon thinking?

[taiyoukai]

It is not so small-minded.

[tohko_amano]

But demons can have small minds too. Demons, angels, people, personified nations..we all have different and similar ways of looking at things, depending on the person and who you compare them to.

..If that makes any sense.

[taiyoukai]

Perfectly.

[He's being a dick again. Enjoy some deadpan sarcasm.]

But when you try to compare yourself to the greatest thing, you will invariably come out losing.

[In this case, he's obviously the greatest thing around.]

[tohko_amano]

But you're not the greatest thing around, Sesshomaru. You may have some good points, but there are a few flaws you hold that others do not. We all have our strengths and weaknesses.

[taiyoukai]

That is wholly your perspective.

[Meaning: UR WRONG.]